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This section considers studies into speciation and the role of inheritance and variation in individuals and among populations in evolution.
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Demographic bottlenecks erode genetic diversity and may increase endangered species’ extinction risk via decreased fitness and adaptive potential. The genetic status of species is generally assessed using neut...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:158
Published on: 4 July 2017
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The Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) plays a central role in immunity and has been given considerable attention by evolutionary ecologists due to its associations with fitness-related traits. Songbirds h...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:152
Published on: 26 June 2017
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Triticeae, the tribe of wheat grasses, harbours the cereals barley, rye and wheat and their wild relatives. Although economically important, relationships within the tribe are still not understood. We analysed...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:141
Published on: 16 June 2017
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Evolutionary shifts in bacterial virulence are often associated with a third biological player, for instance temperate phages, that can act as hyperparasites. By integrating as prophages into the bacterial gen...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:98
Published on: 11 April 2017
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Many fungal species occur across a variety of habitats. Particularly lichens, fungi forming symbioses with photosynthetic partners, have evolved remarkable tolerances for environmental extremes. Despite their ...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:93
Published on: 31 March 2017
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Very little is known on how changes in circadian rhythms evolve. The noctuid moth Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) consists of two strains that exhibit allochronic differentiation in their mating ti...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:68
Published on: 6 March 2017
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Measuring the evolutionary rate of reproductive isolation is essential to understanding how new species form. Tempo calculations typically rely on fossil records, geological events, and molecular evolution ana...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:37
Published on: 26 January 2017
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The analysis of hybrid zones is crucial for gaining a mechanistic understanding of the process of speciation and the maintenance of species boundaries. Hybrid zones have been studied intensively in terrestrial...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:13
Published on: 13 January 2017
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The evolutionary dynamics of repeat sequences is quite complex, with some duplicates never having differentiated from each other. Two models can explain the complex evolutionary process for repeated genes—conc...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:10
Published on: 11 January 2017
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As bats have recently been described to harbor many different viruses, several studies have investigated the genetic co-variation between viruses and different bat species. However, little is known about the g...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2017 17:5
Published on: 5 January 2017
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Ancient Lake Ohrid, located on the Albania-Macedonia border, is the most biodiverse freshwater lake in Europe. However, the processes that gave rise to its extraordinary endemic biodiversity, particularly in t...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2016 16:273
Published on: 15 December 2016
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As global climate change transforms average temperature and rainfall, species distributions may meet, increasing the potential for hybridization and altering individual fitness and population growth. Altered r...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2016 16:266
Published on: 7 December 2016
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Evolutionary histories of parasite and host populations are intimately linked such that their spatial genetic structures may be correlated. While these processes have been relatively well studied in specialist...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2016 16:268
Published on: 7 December 2016
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A common, 32kb deletion of LCE3B and LCE3C genes is strongly associated with psoriasis. We recently found that this deletion is ancient, predating Human-Denisovan divergence. However, it was not clear why negativ...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2016 16:265
Published on: 5 December 2016
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The identification, description and understanding of protein-protein networks are important in cell biology and medicine, especially for the study of system biology where the focus concerns the interaction of ...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2016 16:260
Published on: 1 December 2016
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DNA barcoding has demonstrated that many discrete phenotypes are in fact genetically distinct (pseudo)cryptic species. Genetically identical, isogenic individuals, however, can also express similarly different...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2016 16:258
Published on: 1 December 2016
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RAD-seq is a powerful tool, increasingly used in population genomics. However, earlier studies have raised red flags regarding possible biases associated with this technique. In particular, polymorphism on res...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2016 16:240
Published on: 8 November 2016
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Subtilisin-like serine proteases or Subtilases in fungi are important for penetration and colonization of host. In Hypocreales, these proteins share several properties with other fungal, bacterial, plant and m...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2016 16:220
Published on: 19 October 2016
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There is great controversy as to whether Microsporidia undergo a sexual cycle. In the paradigmatic case of Nosema ceranae, although there is no morphological evidence of sex, some meiosis-specific genes are prese...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2016 16:216
Published on: 18 October 2016
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Fluorescent proteins are optically active proteins found across many clades in metazoans. A fluorescent protein was recently identified in a ctenophore, but this has been suggested to derive from a cnidarian, ...
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2016 16:167
Published on: 24 August 2016
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